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2007-02-28 Iraq

Iraq 'Surge' - Doesn't Seem Confined to Baghdad

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-02-28 08:16|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good. Hit them everywhere now that you have flushed them out of the city. No safe place. You can run, but you'll just die tired.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-02-28 09:28|| 2007-02-28 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Part of the character of the surge that is being missed is that only small areas of Baghdad needed to be cleaned out with major operations. Most of the city just needed to be quietly occupied for a few months to achieve several goals:

1) Break the momentum of enemy actions. Much of their perceived effectiveness is based on keeping up daily attacks.

2) It gives the Iraqi authorities time to establish themselves in a neighborhood and start to fix up the place. The identify who are the good people, which makes it harder for the bad guyz to come back.

3) Once all the neighborhoods are secure, then city-wide operations can go into effect, such as limiting Baghdad to five major access points, and setting up really large permanent checkpoints on those roads.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-28 09:32|| 2007-02-28 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 They should start arresting people who jump the turnstiles in the Baghdad subway too. Also, graffiti writers.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-28 10:03|| 2007-02-28 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 And the squeegee men, too.

Posted by Grunter 2007-02-28 15:44|| 2007-02-28 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a job for Rudy Guliani.

Posted by ed 2007-02-28 17:12|| 2007-02-28 17:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The Iraqis would be lucky to get al Rudy. They could use someone like him right about now.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-28 17:24|| 2007-02-28 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps we can do something about that in 2008, SteveS. One way or another.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-28 20:10|| 2007-02-28 20:10|| Front Page Top

#8 "targeting foreign fighter facilitators"

Who might they be? Where is Taji?

Posted by Hank 2007-02-28 22:13|| 2007-02-28 22:13|| Front Page Top

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